Search Results: 'Kier'

Crossrail running tunnels award
10 December, 2010

The 2010 Harding Lecture (Part 1)
01 December, 2010
British Tunnelling Society, Harding Lecture, 15th April 2010

Digging under The Dorchester
22 September, 2010
Excavating a 2.7m diameter tunnel 12m under busy London streets and with only a hotel basement for access posed a challenge for designers and contractors on The Dorchester Hotel service link tunnel. Petr Salak of Mott MacDonald, Matt Mules of Kier Construction and John Comins of Joseph Gallagher give this report

Catch up on Crossrail
22 September, 2010
As contractors await the award of the two main tunnelling contracts for the GBP 15.9bn (USD 24.5bn) mega project, work on the stations is gathering pace. Bernadette Redfern gives this report

XRL awards contract 824
18 August, 2010

UK’s ability to muster resources
23 March, 2010
With a heavy programme of tunnelling work ahead of it, the UK industry gathered in the ICE Telford Theatre in December to debate its ability to rise to the challenge. Hosted, appropriately, by the BTS Young Members, a packed audience of all ages and affiliations discussed an issue that has generated significant discussion among junior and senior members and is encompassed by the motion: This house believes that the UK tunnelling industry has the sufficient range of engineering expertise and resources to meet the challenges of future projects. As the meeting unfolded, nationalism, internationalism, ageism, and historic reference, all came into the discussion as Neville Harrison (Consultant) and Harnaik Mann (Arup and Vice-Chair of the BTS Young Members committee) proposed the motion and Jon Banyai (Mott MacDonald and Chair of the BTS YM Support Group) and John Edwards (Morgan Est) presented the opposition

KMI gets Preston contract
09 February, 2010